Vinnie Russo

I just came across this thread yesterday, but I just wanted to share some news here.

Paulie unfortunately passed away in late 2022. I was very good friends with him for about 5 years, and had daily contact with him. I do not have an obituary or anything to share because there is nothing out there, but I found this news out through a family friend. He was such a great and caring friend to me. Here are some pics of him from 2022.
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This is horrible news. I last communicated with “Paulie” in the fall of 2022, and he mentioned that he was back in Rhode Island.

Many of the young performers on this site have had very difficult lives.
 
This is horrible news. I last communicated with “Paulie” in the fall of 2022, and he mentioned that he was back in Rhode Island.

Many of the young performers on this site have had very difficult lives.
Both Buzz and Paulie have died. Not too long ago someone posted a fairly recent photo of Tony, also in Rhode Island.
Does anyone know what became of Jake?
 
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Both Buzz and Paulie have died. Not too long ago someone posted a fairly recent photo of Tony, also in Rhode Island.
Does anyone know what became of Jake?

The post on this site that claims to be Buzz and reports that he his dead was not Buzz. Buzz may have passed away, but that post is not proof of it.

Cory is alive and well.
 
Both Buzz and Paulie have died. Not too long ago someone posted a fairly recent photo of Tony, also in Rhode Island.
Does anyone know what became of Jake?
Jake has always been my favorite. I remember from one vid Cory was talking about Jake having a kid and it looking just like him.
 
Would love to know too whatever became of Cory if anyone knows?
Cory is well. He lives in my town. He keeps a very low profile (almost non existent) on social media. He seems to have a good job, regular life, and seems to want to be left alone. I’ve never reached out to him out of respect. His videos at age 18-21 are a gift, a great example of a real, stunningly hot young man just getting his dick sucked while watching a straight porno. To me, he’s shared more than enough of himself.

In general, it can’t be easy for these guys, who were mostly straight, barely adults, and in need of money when they became models on that site. These videos were made at a time when there was very little streaming, due to slow internet connection technology, and were sold to individuals. When they signed on, they figured their videos would just be sold to a bunch of gay guys all over the country, to watch in the privacy of their own homes, but post dial up, the advent of online porn exposed, and continues to expose, these guys to a tremendous amount of people. It’s probably not a big deal if someone is gay, as they could look back on their late teen early 20 years as glory days, but for someone who identifies as straight and has children that are now teens or adults themselves, it probably is a big deal.

Unless they are actively trying to get people to reach out to them, like the late Pauly did on Twitter and various video site, I don’t contact any of them. When I ran into Buzz (who I knew previous to his porn days) five or six years ago, we had a good conversation, and I didn’t bring up the fact that I had been watching his many videos for a long time.
 
Cory is well. He lives in my town. He keeps a very low profile (almost non existent) on social media. He seems to have a good job, regular life, and seems to want to be left alone. I’ve never reached out to him out of respect. His videos at age 18-21 are a gift, a great example of a real, stunningly hot young man just getting his dick sucked while watching a straight porno. To me, he’s shared more than enough of himself.

In general, it can’t be easy for these guys, who were mostly straight, barely adults, and in need of money when they became models on that site. These videos were made at a time when there was very little streaming, due to slow internet connection technology, and were sold to individuals. When they signed on, they figured their videos would just be sold to a bunch of gay guys all over the country, to watch in the privacy of their own homes, but post dial up, the advent of online porn exposed, and continues to expose, these guys to a tremendous amount of people. It’s probably not a big deal if someone is gay, as they could look back on their late teen early 20 years as glory days, but for someone who identifies as straight and has children that are now teens or adults themselves, it probably is a big deal.

Unless they are actively trying to get people to reach out to them, like the late Pauly did on Twitter and various video site, I don’t contact any of them. When I ran into Buzz (who I knew previous to his porn days) five or six years ago, we had a good conversation, and I didn’t bring up the fact that I had been watching his many videos for a long time.
Interesting, thanks for sharing this. I agree with what you said about them not knowing that these videos will persist for a long time. Unfortunately it is what it is.

I wonder if you have any encounters or interactions with Boston. He seems to be the youngest of them, and disappeared suddenly.
 
Interesting, thanks for sharing this. I agree with what you said about them not knowing that these videos will persist for a long time. Unfortunately it is what it is.

I wonder if you have any encounters or interactions with Boston. He seems to be the youngest of them, and disappeared suddenly.
Never met Boston, who was one of my favorites. Apparently he was one of Vinny’s favorites too, and was living with him when they were making videos, but had a falling out. I think he took the name Boston because he was from Boston, and I think he might have gone back to Boston after Vinny bounced him out of his house. Vinny
lived about an hour south of Boston in Rhode Island.
 
Sad to hear about Paulie. I may be wrong, but I could've sworn that he had an account here where he posted at least once promoting his OF or something like that. I could be wrong since this was a while ago and it might've been a different model who worked with Vinnie and I could be getting names and faces mixed up.
 
Let's talk about "Zack." Zack appeared in several of Vinnie Russo's movies he even has a DVD called Zack Attack but to my knowledge Vinnie only briefly sucks him. On the other hand, Vinnie's partner made a series of films sucking Zack to completion. Why? Why not Vinnie? My theory is that Zack and Vinnie both hot guys made it a little too real for Zack. Opinions, thoughts, clips of Vinnie getting Zack?

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Presumably Zack wasn't too comfortable with Vinnie. IIRC he mentioned that Vinnie was the first guy to touch his dick in one of his videos, and in another one he complained that Vinnie was making his dick go limp. The implication being that those scenes with Vinnie were Zack's first erotic experiences with men, whereas by the time he worked with Mike, he was more comfortable letting guys touch him.

I mentioned it before, but someone on another site claimed that Zack had been some sort of male stripper/dancer and possibly an escort at one point. I'm assuming that that was around the time that he did scenes with Vinnie because he was in good shape then compared to when he did scenes with Mike for Manhandle Media.
 
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Sad to hear about Paulie. I may be wrong, but I could've sworn that he had an account here where he posted at least once promoting his OF or something like that. I could be wrong since this was a while ago and it might've been a different model who worked with Vinnie and I could be getting names and faces mixed up.
@Fennekin99 You are correct. He had an account and commented at least once on a thread within this thread.
 
Never met Boston, who was one of my favorites. Apparently he was one of Vinny’s favorites too, and was living with him when they were making videos, but had a falling out. I think he took the name Boston because he was from Boston, and I think he might have gone back to Boston after Vinny bounced him out of his house. Vinny
lived about an hour south of Boston in Rhode Island.

Boston was such a catch for Vinnie, to be honest. Although the arrangement seems a little predatory, it is what it is. I hope he turned his life around because judging from the few videos he featured in, he seems to have a problematic family situation and is quite prone to vices.